Anthony Mackie
Acting
1978-09-23 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Anthony Dwane Mackie (born September 23, 1978) is an American actor. He gained wide recognition for portraying Sam Wilson in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and later starring as the titular character in Captain America: Brave New World (2025). By 2026, he had also gained widespread internet recognition through the viral "Son" meme. Mackie made his film debut in 8 Mile (2002) and earned critical recognition for his roles in Brother to Brother (2004), which garnered him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Actor, and The Hurt Locker (2008), which earned him nominations for Best Supporting Actor at the AAFCA Awards and the Independent Spirit Awards. He also played Tupac Shakur in Notorious (2009) and Martin Luther King Jr. in the HBO film All the Way (2016). On television, Mackie starred as Takeshi Kovacs in the second season of Netflix's Altered Carbon (2020), a delivery driver in the Peacock series Twisted Metal (2023–present), and a fictionalised version of himself in the Apple TV+ series The Studio (2025), which earned him his first Primetime Emmy nomination. In theatre, he has performed in Broadway and Off-Broadway adaptations, including Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, A Soldier's Play and Carl Hancock Rux's Talk, for which he won an Obie Award in 2002. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Mackie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
TheatersAvengers: Secret Wars
2027 · Movie
Avengers: Doomsday
2026 · Movie
12 12 12
2026 · Series
Desert Warrior
2026 · Movie
Sneaks
2025 · Movie
The Studio
2025 · Series
The Electric State
2025 · Movie
Captain America: Brave New World
2025 · Movie
Elevation
2024 · Movie
Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie
2024 · Movie
If You Were the Last
2024 · Movie
Hot Ones Versus
2024 · Series
Off Script with The Hollywood Reporter
2023 · Series
Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford
2023 · Movie
Disney 100: Remember That
2023 · Movie
Twisted Metal
2023 · Series
Ghosted
2023 · Movie
Rennervations
2023 · Series
We Have a Ghost
2023 · Movie
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Series
Sherri
2022 · Series
Celebrating Betty White: America's Golden Girl
2022 · Movie
Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 · Movie
Animal
2021 · Series
What If...?
2021 · Series
Solos
2021 · Series
The Woman in the Window
2021 · Movie
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
2021 · Series
Marvel Studios Assembled
2021 · Series
The Eisen Hour
2021 · Series
Outside the Wire
2021 · Movie
Marvel Studios Legends
2021 · Series
Synchronic
2020 · Movie
Creating a Character: The Moni Yakim Legacy
2020 · Movie
The Banker
2020 · Movie
Celebrating Marvel's Stan Lee
2019 · Movie
Seberg
2019 · Movie
Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe
2019 · Movie
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · Series
Point Blank
2019 · Movie
Avengers: Endgame
2019 · Movie
Desus & Mero
2019 · Series
Miss Bala
2019 · Movie
IO
2019 · Movie
The Hate U Give
2018 · Movie
Avengers: Infinity War
2018 · Movie
Altered Carbon
2018 · Series
Detroit
2017 · Movie
All the Way
2016 · Movie
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · Movie
Triple 9
2016 · Movie
Animals.
2016 · Series
The Night Before
2015 · Movie
Love the Coopers
2015 · Movie
Our Brand Is Crisis
2015 · Movie
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Series
Ant-Man
2015 · Movie
Avengers: Age of Ultron
2015 · Movie
Hot Ones
2015 · Series
Black or White
2015 · Movie
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Series
Playing It Cool
2014 · Movie
Shelter
2014 · Movie
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
2014 · Series
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2014 · Movie
Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe
2014 · Movie
Repentance
2014 · Movie
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Series
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Series
The Fifth Estate
2013 · Movie
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2013 · Movie
Runner Runner
2013 · Movie
Pain & Gain
2013 · Movie
Gangster Squad
2013 · Movie
10 Years
2012 · Movie
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · Movie
Goose
2012 · Movie
Man on a Ledge
2012 · Movie
Black Mirror
2011 · Series
What's Your Number?
2011 · Movie
Real Steel
2011 · Movie
The Adjustment Bureau
2011 · Movie
Night Catches Us
2010 · Movie
Conan
2010 · Series
Louis
2010 · Movie
Desert Flower
2009 · Movie
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Series
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
2009 · Series
Notorious
2009 · Movie
The Hurt Locker
2008 · Movie
Eagle Eye
2008 · Movie
American Violet
2008 · Movie
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · Series
We Are Marshall
2006 · Movie
El hormiguero
2006 · Series
Crossover
2006 · Movie
Half Nelson
2006 · Movie
Heavens Fall
2006 · Movie
Freedomland
2006 · Movie
The Man
2005 · Movie
Born to Fight
2005 · Movie
Million Dollar Baby
2004 · Movie
Sucker Free City
2004 · Movie
Haven
2004 · Movie
The Manchurian Candidate
2004 · Movie
She Hate Me
2004 · Movie
Brother to Brother
2004 · Movie
Hollywood Homicide
2003 · Movie
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
8 Mile
2002 · Movie
CMT Music Awards
2002 · Series
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001 · Series
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992 · Series
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988 · Series
The Grammys
1959 · Series
Golden Globe Awards
1944 · Series
Barracuda
Movie
Clybourne Park
Movie
Speed the Plow
Movie
Raven
Movie
The Ogun
Movie
Spark
Movie